Size of TP?
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SkyNetRising
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Settle down Beavis. LOL.
No but seriously there is no "true" way. Everyone has their own methods and everyone swears by theirs. Some use a single small line about the size of short grain rice in the middle and don't spread it, let the heat sink installation spread it. Others say a dot the size of a small pea in the middle and also let the heat sink spread it. Then others say just blob it on randomly and spread it evenly with a putty knife.
I find the pea method works best IF you have good contact between the CPU and heatsink. Most of the heat generated from a CPU is in the middle 2/3 of the chip so if the chip is not covered with paste to all corners, it doesn't matter. But I will say this: if you no longer see any of the metal on your CPU, you have too much applied which is bad. It should be like a thin membrane that you can barely see through.
Thanks for verifying. My temps were within reason, but still higher than I expected. When I stumbled upon a video about delidding, I saw the small area underneath that made me realize whole coverage wasn't needed, and when I took the block off, way too much tp was in there. I'd say layer rather than coating when I took the block off. 
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